Today's leaders face many complex, high-stakes decisions that can't be managed through traditional risk frameworks alone. When leaders feel paralyzed by ambiguity, they need a framework that balances operational, legal, reputational, and cultural factors and supports principled, decisive action, even when every option feels impossible. There are four guidelines leaders can apply when making high-stakes decisions: 1) Map the tradeoffs, 2) pressure-test the plan, 3) use principles to guide decisions, not just policies, and 4) name the change.
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